Shchedrin Sylvester

Landscapes of Sylvester Shchedrin are filled with a living sense of nature, sunlight, clear air, the inseparable connection of the life of nature with the life of man. So before

Landscape painting arose in Russian art much later than the portrait and the historical picture. Only in the last quarter of the XVIII century among Russian artists a group of

Landscapist Sylvester Shchedrin was the son of the famous sculptor Theodosius Shchedrin and the nephew of the landscape painter Semyon Shchedrin. Sylvester grew up in an atmosphere of artistic interests,

Among the works of a happy time, a prominent place is occupied by the painting “View of Lake Nemi in the environs of Rome,” written, apparently, around 1825. In this

Sylvester Shchedrin was born in St. Petersburg, in an artistic family. His father is a famous sculptor, rector of the Academy of Arts, uncle – a landscape painter, who for

In the summer of 1825 Shchedrin moved from Rome to Naples. He was drawn to the sea, to the Neapolitan embankments, to the motley crowd. The artist wrote various embankments